MichaelBishop comments on Beware of WEIRD psychological samples - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MichaelBishop 14 September 2009 01:46:54PM 0 points [-]

Economists Steve Levitt and John List have a nice paper about generalizing from social/cognitive science laboratory experiments to the real world. They even write down a model. http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/jep%20revision%20Levitt%20&%20List.pdf